Spider Webb "has lectured internationally and his art works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world," according to TattooFinder.com. The renowned New York City tattooist created his 9-11 collection based on the events of September 11, 2001. His images interpret the feelings and emotions associated with that day and include patriotic symbols and portraits. The 9-11 collection showed at Clayton Patterson's Outlaw Art Gallery in New York.
Angelina Jolie, recognizable from her films and appearances in gossip columns and tabloids, sports multiple famous tattoos. She often graces magazine pages and websites showing her tattoos, each of which holds special meaning for her. For example, the coordinates for the birthplaces of each of her six children grace her left arm (and provide a cover-up for a previous tattoo of her ex-husband's name). Her left shoulder contains a Buddhist Pali incantation intended to protect her and her son Maddox from bad luck. According to I Tattoo Mag, Jolie currently sports a total of 13 tattoos.
Ed Hardy, a fixture in the California tattoo industry since the 1970s, has used his tattoo talent to get into the fashion industry. His original designs earned him a large following, and his work appears in galleries in Santa Monica, Denver, Ecuador, San Francisco and Honolulu. After more than 40 years of creating original designs for tattoo and print, Hardy used his tattoo designs as inspiration for the now popular Ed Hardy clothing line. Celebrities including Madonna, Jessica Alba and Robert Downey Jr. wear Hardy's designs, according to Donna Freydkin at USAToday.com.